Man found dead in parking lot is Trenton's first homicide of 2018

A 46-year-old man who was shot several times was found dead outside his apartment building in Trenton’s West Ward early Tuesday morning.

Police found Terrence McKinney, of Trenton, in a parking lot behind the multi-unit building at 1115 West State St., the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. McKinney was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers were dispatched at 1:16 a.m. Tuesday, after a Shot Spotter system — technology that registers gun shots and alerts police — detected the shots on the block. They didn’t receive any 911 calls about the incident, the prosecutor’s office said.